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El Morro Chair Factory was born from an unexpected encounter on a road trip along Colombia's Atlantic coast: a small handwoven chair sitting in a car repair shop, shaped like a flower. For its founder, a designer originally from Riga, Latvia, it was love at first sight.
That single chair opened a window into something bigger. Along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Colombia, these woven chairs are everywhere, in modest homes and grand ones alike, rocking gently on porches through sun and tropical rain, in every color imaginable. A quiet, essential staple of coastal life.
Back in Medellín, the obsession became a studio and the studio became a brand. Founded in 2014 and named after the hillside home where the first chairs were woven, Morro Contento, the happy mountain, the brand grew organically until Colombia's leading design stores came calling and architecture magazines took notice.
Over the years the chairs evolved steadily, refined down to their most essential form. Drawn to the bold geometries, natural materials, and sun-saturated palettes of tropical modernism, El Morro developed a visual language that feels at once rooted and contemporary: a collection equally at home on a rain-soaked terrace or as a considered detail in a carefully designed living room.
In 2023, the founder relocated to Berlin. There, reconnecting with a childhood friend and architect, Edite, Berlin-based since 2009, sparked the next chapter. Edite immediately saw the chairs' potential in Europe and became co-founder of El Morro Chair Factory's Berlin edition.
- Founded
- 2014, Medellín, Colombia
- Berlin edition
- 2024
